New guidelines for trainee priests anger LGBT Catholics
New guidelines for trainee priests anger LGBT Catholics
- But while the 91-page document primarily seeks to ensure that seminarians become mature pastors, it controversially reiterates a ban on ordaining gay men or “persons with homosexual tendencies”, first implemented in 2005 causing widespread offence to gay Catholics, including many gay priests.
- But while the 91-page document primarily seeks to ensure that seminarians become mature pastors, it controversially reiterates a ban on ordaining gay men or “persons with homosexual tendencies”, first implemented in 2005 causing widespread offence to gay Catholics, including many gay priests.
It
is also at odds with Pope Francis’ more compassionate “who am I to
Judge?” response when he was asked about gay priests in 2013 - and the
reiteration of the ban has already received a negative response from
LGBT catholics.